AHST 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Milk Glass, Travertine, Bookmatching
13 Dec 2014
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Lecture 12 - ludwig mies van der rohe. Moved to chicago, founded architecture school there (iit), worked in usa. Direct, clear, understood best by people who get structure. Barcelona pavilion (aka german pavilion ), barcelona, spain, 1929. Taken down after expo, rebuilt 70 years later. Incredibly polished, bookmatched stone and water complex questions and confusion with light. Marble on ground and walls, circulate around that. Spaces not defined by 4 wall surfaces - little distinction between inside and out. Shapes sliding past each other, on a grid marked by travertine tiles. Roofs and elevated plinth put everything on one set of lines. Columns left free of walls, walls act as dividers only. Designed interiors too: barcelona chairs still used today. Note: when using steel beams, you can shape them to fit with forces of tension and compression. Wide flange beams = eliminate material, only need enough to keep flanges separated.
